{"id":2132967,"date":"2025-11-03T19:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2132967"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:28:23","slug":"audiences-get-a-sneak-peek-of-japanese-phenomenon-kokuho-at-thr-frontrunners-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/audiences-get-a-sneak-peek-of-japanese-phenomenon-kokuho-at-thr-frontrunners-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Audiences Get a Sneak Peek of Japanese Phenomenon \u2018Kokuho\u2019 at \u2018THR Frontrunners\u2019 Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">On a warm late October afternoon, a full house at the San Vicente Bungalows in Los Angeles got a sneak preview of one of the year\u2019s most acclaimed international Oscar contenders, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8106749\/\">Lee Sang-il<\/a>\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt35231039\/\">Kokuho<\/a>. The THR Frontrunners screening introduced the crowd to an epic, nearly three-hour-long portrait of the life of a fictional kabuki actor, which THR\u2019s review from last week called \u201ca stunning tale of art, ambition and bloodlines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee had wanted to make a film set in the world of kabuki, the classical form of Japanese theater that dates back to the 17th century, for more than a decade, and found the ideal text to adapt from in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2437391\/\">Shuichi Yoshida<\/a>\u2019s novel of the same name. Set in post-World War II Japan and spanning decades, Kokuho follows <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11819146\/\">Kikuo<\/a> (played by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm13318127\/\">S\u014dya Kurokawa<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10612070\/\">Ryo Yoshizawa<\/a> at various ages), who\u2019s taken under the wing of a kabuki icon,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a warm late October afternoon, a full house at the San Vicente Bungalows in Los Angeles got a sneak preview of one of the year\u2019s most acclaimed international Oscar contenders, Lee Sang-il\u2019s Kokuho. 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